OBJECTIVE To test the applicability of multi-criteria decision analysis preference elicitation techniques in cognitively impaired individuals. METHOD A convenience sample of 16 cognitively impaired subjects and 12 healthy controls was asked to participate in a small pilot study. The subjects determined the relative importance of four decision criteria using five different weight elicitation t...

Assessing the tumor response of liver cancer lesions after intraarterial therapies is of major clinical interest. Over the last two decades, tumor response criteria have come a long way from purely size-based, anatomic methods such as the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors towards more functional, enhancement- and diffusion-based parameters with a strong emphasis on MRI as the ultimat...

This paper presents the AAected Set Priority Ceiling (ASPC) concurrency control protocol for real-time object-oriented databases. The protocol is based on a combination of a semantic locking technique and priority ceiling techniques. The paper speciies six criteria for real-time concurrency control: high concurrency, deadlock prevention, predictability, temporal consistency enforcement, logical...

Although the various manifestations of disordered thought have played a central role in diagnostic and theoretical considerations of schizophrenia, such symptoms have not been found specific to schizophrenia, and at best have shown weak relations to outcome. As part of a 7-year followup study of a sample of young, acute, psychotic inpatients, we explored the hypothesis that despite these poor r...

deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk) has recently been introduced as an alternative procedure to penetrating keratoplasty (pk) for corneal pathologies not affecting the corneal endothelium. dalk does not rely on donor endothelium and requires less rigid criteria for donor corneal tissue quality. therefore, dalk makes it possible to use donor corneas deemed unsuitable for pk. furthermore, ...

recent literature attaches high importance to scenic evaluation of natural landscapes. scenic beauty evaluation techniques often use parameters derived from photographs or collected in situ data via field assessment and questionnaires. such techniques are relatively costly and time consuming. park managers and recreational planners require spatial tools and techniques that are fast, flexible an...